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GekeVenn: MAERSK

A few days ago, Maersk Line Limited was awarded a Defense Department contract worth $14 million to continue work on military watercraft in Japan. The Danish company’s relationship with the United States federal government is supported by several well-connected Washington lobbyists.

But its lobbyists do far more than grease procurement for the company. They continue to ensure funding for the Maritime Security Program which benefits large shipping companies like Maersk.

The most difficult issue Maersk deals with is the reaction of environmentalists to its shipbreaking (beaching end-of-life ships). Although the company enjoyed the esteem of European environmental and human rights groups in the past, 2016 brought criticism as it stopped its progressive ship recycling policy to instead sell scrap ships to beaching yards.

This method of ship scrapping is banned in the US and Europe, but Maersk has also been actively lobbying for its acceptance.

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Big Oil venn

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The venn diagrams project at Geke was started to dispel the belief that corporatism is a right-wing phenomenon. Democrats are just as corporatist as Republicans, as these venns show.

If that surprises you, take a look at the history of the progressive movement, starting in the late 1800s. Before adopting the theme of “trust-busting,” progressive rhetoric focused on business efficiency through merger and consolidation, and how business competition should be avoided. Progressives used government to enact their ideas into laws, but if you look carefully, you’ll see these “trust busting” laws were often used by fat cats and industry magnates to punish rival companies and protect their own. Trust busting was fine, as long as the trust was a competitor of Rockefeller, Carnegie, or J.P. Morgan.

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The venn diagrams project at Geke was started to dispel the belief that corporatism is a right-wing phenomenon. Democrats are just as corporatist as Republicans, as these venns show.

If that surprises you, take a look at the history of the progressive movement, starting in the late 1800s. Before adopting the theme of “trust-busting,” progressive rhetoric focused on business efficiency through merger and consolidation, and how business competition should be avoided. Progressives used government to enact their ideas into laws, but if you look carefully, you’ll see these “trust busting” laws were often used by fat cats and industry magnates to punish rival companies and protect their own. Trust busting was fine, as long as the trust was a competitor of Rockefeller, Carnegie, or J.P. Morgan.

All Geke venn diagrams employ a Creative Commons license. Reproduction is permissible with credit to geke.us.